Babel

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Bible verses about “Babel”

The first verses cited, in the King James Version.

• Genesis 11:1And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.
• Genesis 11:2And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.
• Genesis 11:3And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter.
• Genesis 11:4And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
• Genesis 11:5And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.
• Genesis 11:6And the Lord said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.
• Genesis 11:7Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.
• Genesis 11:8So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.
• Genesis 11:9Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the Lord scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.